Social media: Emotional and Touching Videos are Often Fake
Touching videos, like this, of an elderly teacher reading a thank you note from a former student, who turns out to be her surgeon who has saved her life – are typically staged productions.
Media censorship: BBC altered Trump speech
The BBC edited Trump quotes, from an hour apart, to make it appear he said something he did not say. The BBC Director General and the BBC News CEO have now both resigned.
Media: Self-inflicted loss of trust in the media
Hype! Exaggeration! Scary Words! Just another day in media land!
Media: News web sites see large drop in visitors
Search engines have turned into “web content summaries” and searchers never visit the underlying web news sites that provided the training material to the AI-assisted search. Thus, visits to the root information provider have plummeted.
Public Apology Generator
When you screw up in public or on social media, here is a handy algorithm to generate your apology.
AI to produce nearly all web content within a year
The market for all the “freelance authors” spinning out junk for Business Insider, will be gone within a year, replaced by AI content.
Misogyny alive and well at The Daily Beast
They denigrate women by referring to them as “Barbie”.
Media: Why do people write stories like this?
She writes a story about living at home to save money, while earning just $2,500/month as, basically, a writer. Make this make sense.
Hate has no boundaries
Hate seems widespread – and pointless, and says much about today’s college campuses.
He calls himself an “honest pollster”
Famous pollster who calls himself an “honest pollster” is not honest.